CHICAGO — In the NFL draft, nearly all the selections make an immediate impact with their team without much to say for development.

To attempt to grade the Flyers’ draft already would be silly because second-overall pick Nolan Patrick is the only selection with a serious shot to make the NHL this fall. On paper, however, it looks like the Flyers addressed some needs.

They’ve planted some seeds, big ones, by drafting wingers like 6-foot-6 Isaac Ratcliffe and 6-foot-4 Matthew Strome, a pair of scorers with the potential to be a force in the league near the crease. With Ratcliffe, who was projected by some to be a first rounder, the Flyers traded three picks to move up nine spots in the second round to select him at No. 35.

“When you really like a guy you go after him and that’s what happened,” general manager Ron Hextall said. “He fit part of our organizational needs (at) left wing. He’s got real good size. He plays hard. He can score goals. He’s really raw. He’s at the front end of the process. You look at kids and some are front-end, some are average and some are back-end. He’s got work to do, but we really like his upside and his attitude and the way he plays the game.”

Both Ratcliffe and Strome dropped a little in the draft. Strome was selected with one of the Flyers’ fourth-round picks at 106 overall. The reason for both not going higher was likely their skating, an issue that’s typical for bigger players.

“Just being drafted, being one of the top 300 players or whatever it is, is something to be very honored and it’s very special,” Strome said. “I’m just gonna use that as motivation to prove people wrong that if people thought I slipped I’ll prove them wrong that they made the wrong choice.”

Strome got the spotlight for most of the weekend in his family. His older brother Dylan plays for the Arizona Coyotes and the oldest, Ryan, was traded from the New York Islanders to the Edmonton Oilers. The youngest of the trio, Matthew had 34 goals and 28 assists in 66 games for the Hamilton Bulldogs of the Ontario Hockey League.

“Call a spade a spade, his skating has to improve,” Hextall said. “I think we all know it, but he’s a good hockey player. He’s got good size. He’s heavy. He can make plays. He scores goals. He knows how to play the game. If you look at a kid like that, obviously young kids have got to get better at everything, but he’s got one deficiency there that he can really focus on. We really like where we got him.”

There will be summer homework for both — working on their footwork.

Development camp is expected to begin July 7 on the ice and a popular man for both Ratcliffe and Strome will be Slava Kouznetsov. A local skating instructor who has worked with the Flyers for years, Kouznetsov has helped players from the junior level to the NHL and even worked with Disney On Ice to help the pair skaters.

“That’s the big part of my game I’ll have to work on and I’ll have to get a lot stronger too,” said Ratcliffe. The 200-pounder scored 28 goals and 26 assists for the Guelph Storm this past season. “I’ll try to make my way to my next level. Going into next year that’s going to be a big part of it, really showing what I can do and prove to them they made the right pick here.

“I’m definitely a player that’s still developing. I still need to get stronger and mature more to get to that next level. I think in the next one to two years you’re gonna see that progress and you’re gonna start to see how big of a player I can be. I believe I can be one of the top players in this draft class.”

Between the two 2017 selections and 2016 pick Wade Allison, a 6-foot-2, 205-pound right wing who plays for Western Michigan University, the Flyers have some potential for top scorers someday.

Add in wingers like Maksim Sushko, a fourth-round pick taken right after Strome, and fifth-rounder Noah Cates, and all of a sudden the Flyers have a decent-sized crop of wingers and they’re not all the same. Sushko said through a translator Saturday that he plays like Lightning sniper Nikita Kucherov.

“I like a physical style of play,” he said. “I do like to give assists and try to take shots and be a better sniper and scorer.”

Some years down the road, what the Flyers were weakest at entering the weekend might be an organizational strength eventually.

The team has been pushed out of the opposing crease in recent seasons with smaller wingers like Jordan Weal or Travis Konecny — both who could be with the team for several seasons.

That might be changing soon, but the Flyers have a wait ahead of them.

“Definitely,” Ratcliffe said. “With my size and as I continue to get stronger I’m definitely gonna be a force. I think that’s gonna be an area of the ice I can take over.”